We performed a comparison between Confluent and Fivetran based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With Confluent Cloud we no longer need to handle the infrastructure and the plumbing, which is a concern for Confluent. The other advantage is that all portfolios have access to the data that is being shared."
"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."
"I would rate the scalability of the solution at eight out of ten. We have 20 people who use Confluent in our organization now, and we hope to increase usage in the future."
"The most valuable is its capability to enhance the documentation process, particularly when creating software documentation."
"The most valuable feature of Confluent is the wide range of features provided. They're leading the market in this category."
"The solution can handle a high volume of data because it works and scales well."
"We mostly use the solution's message queues and event-driven architecture."
"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."
"It is not like a traditional ETL, but it gives quite a lot of flexibility."
"Fivetran's most valuable feature is replication."
"The portal is very intuitive and easy to use."
"The compare feature is the most valuable piece of it."
"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable feature."
"Making the decision to implement Fivetran was supported by the fact that they have better connectors than other competitors."
"Fivetran offers native connectivity with Sybase"
"The ease of usability is the most valuable feature. It's very easy and quick to set up. It also has a central hub as opposed to GoldenGate which is one direct interface. For GoldenGate I would have needed three interfaces whereas with HVR I have a central interface that manages everything."
"Confluence could improve the server version of the solution. However, most companies are going to the cloud."
"It requires some application specific connectors which are lacking. This needs to be added."
"It could have more themes. They should also have more reporting-oriented plugins as well. It would be great to have free custom reports that can be dispatched directly from Jira."
"Confluent has a good monitoring tool, but it's not customizable."
"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."
"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."
"The Schema Registry service could be improved. I would like a bigger knowledge base of other use cases and more technical forums. It would be good to have more flexible monitoring features added to the next release as well."
"There is a limitation when it comes to seamlessly importing Microsoft documents into Confluent pages, which can be inconvenient for users who frequently work with Microsoft Office tools and need to transition their content to Confluent."
"Some of the pain points we're looking at are trying to integrate some of the items in the Microsoft stack, so SharePoint and Excel, and then some of the newer Azure services."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The environment must be more development-friendly."
"The documentation can be laid out better to make it easier to find things, and I really wish there was built-in support for changing passwords. Some features don't work as advertised for the platform/repository database, and HVR is not always the fastest at getting results."
"The solution is very expensive. I would like to have a better integration of the solution with Azure."
"HVR Software's technical support could be improved. Whenever we log a case, the response that we get from the support is a bit delayed."
"More connectors are needed for exotic, popular, and rising star portals."
"An in-line data quality checking capability is missing"
Confluent is ranked 4th in Streaming Analytics with 21 reviews while Fivetran is ranked 6th in Cloud Data Integration with 21 reviews. Confluent is rated 8.4, while Fivetran is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Confluent writes "Has good technical support services and a valuable feature for real-time data streaming ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fivetran writes "Solution reduces time-to-value; high ROI". Confluent is most compared with Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, Databricks, AWS Glue and Aiven for Apache Kafka, whereas Fivetran is most compared with AWS Database Migration Service, Qlik Replicate, Oracle GoldenGate, Azure Data Factory and StreamSets. See our Confluent vs. Fivetran report.
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